Mount Sterling, Ohio

Mount Sterling grew from 1,782 to 1,945 between 2010 and 2020. These are the recorded population figures Wikidata holds for this place, reached through the Geographic Names Information System number this page is keyed on rather than by name, so they belong to this place and not to another of the same name. Most are census counts, but not all are: an early figure may be a founding or settlement estimate. The change column is computed, and is left blank where more than 20 years separate a figure from the one before it, because a gap that long is not a change between two counts.

The same ground, surveyed 80 years apart. Drag the handle to wipe between them. Both sheets are United States Geological Survey originals; neither has been altered.

1906 1986

Matched by testing this settlement's coordinate against the published boundary of every sheet in the United States Geological Survey's historical collection. Each opens the scanned sheet at the Survey.

• 1906 USGS Mt Sterling quadrangle1:62500
• 1947 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1961 USGS Mount Sterling quadrangle1:24000
• 1961 USGS Mount Sterling quadrangle1:24000
• 1962 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1967 USGS Columbus quadrangle1:250000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000
• 1986 USGS Springfield quadrangle1:100000

An account from the chapter on Pleasant township, The inset identifies its exact source book and publication year.

The county-history sources names this settlement in its chapter on Pleasant Township. These are the passages that mention it, exactly as the scans read.

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. Museums hold 90 specimens collected within 10 miles of Mount Sterling between 1909 and 1972: 80 Animalia, 7 Plantae, 2 Unrecorded, 1 Fungi. 12 distinct Species records are shown. Collected by Brommer, R. & Moerchen, R. (Richard), Bureau of Fisheries, Charles O. Wingo Jr. and others. Each is a physical object with a catalogue number, and each entry opens the museum's record. This is what was collected and kept, not a survey of what lives here - nothing can be concluded from a species being absent.

Image	Species	Year	Collected by	Where, as recorded
	Obovaria olivaria (Rafinesque, 1820)	1909	Bureau of Fisheries	Ohio River, Wrightville
	Plethobasus cyphus (Rafinesque, 1820)	1909	Bureau of Fisheries	Ohio River, Wrightville
	Potamilus alatus (Say, 1817)	1909	Bureau of Fisheries	Ohio River, Wrightville
	Necturus maculosus maculosus (Rafinesque, 1818)	1929	Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Oak Run, Madison Co., Ohio
	Ambloplites rupestris (Rafinesque, 1817)	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
	Ameiurus natalis (Lesueur, 1819)	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
	Campostoma anomalum anomalum	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
	Cyprinella whipplei Girard, 1856	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
	Esox americanus Gmelin, 1789	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
	Etheostoma blennioides blennioides Rafinesque, 1819	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
	Etheostoma caeruleum Storer, 1845	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township
	Etheostoma flabellare Rafinesque, 1819	1940	Trautman, M. B. (Milton Bernard) & Wickliff, E. L. (Edward L.)	Deer Creek, ust SR 56, 0.6 mile east of Mount Sterling OH, Pleasant Township

All 90 specimens within 10 miles, at the Global Biodiversity Information Facility.

The eight closest, with where each one stands in the county. Distances are straight-line, computed from the Geographic Names Information System coordinates.

Matched on this settlement's Geographic Names Information System number rather than its name, so it cannot be a different place of the same name in another state.

This settlement is recorded in the Geographic Names Information System as feature 1065077. The sheet list is computed by point-in-boundary test against the United States Geological Survey's historical topographic inventory. Both are works of the United States government and carry no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.

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